AGNOSTICS AND HEAVEN (Easter Sunday, 20 April 2014) Many of my dearest comrades and friends are atheists. Often while imbibing the occasional dram of holy water I would be referred to as our spiritual father. A ham-handed emphasis on spirits followed by a dry crackle of a chuckle. These hard-core materialists would regard heaven as a fantastic concept, a construct of the romantic optimist. I on the other hand believe that in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus heaven was brought to earth. Death is a realignment of life proportionate to our spiritual consciousness in this lived life. In the now. I am a shabby apologist for the Christian faith. I struggle to articulate that which I believe and know to be true. But my friendship with these fellows have deepened over these long years. I love them beyond words and know that I too am loved. So when unshackled of this earthly coil and I should tread the path to the realm of our ancestors and find myself a resident of that place of the saints, of the beautiful ones - and there find my comrades are not there, then heaven, for me at least, would be a poorer place without them.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 18:57:54 +0000
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